Category Archives: BibServer

BibServer screencast and user perspective

BibServer software allows people (you, me, the person in the office down the road) to hold and share collections of searchable data. Be it the list of books you have to read for your course this semester, the publications you … Continue reading

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Sprint videos

Last week’s sprint produced more than just parsers, game-plans and blog posts (Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3): it also allowed Peter and Naomi to stretch their directorial wings and produce some video blogs to record what we were … Continue reading

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Thursday 19th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 3

Today we were joined by additional members of the OKFN team from various parts of the world – Ira, Sam and Primavera. Then the fun began… Sam and Mark discussed the interface between Open Biblio and the TEXTUS project, looking … Continue reading

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Wednesday 18th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 2

BibServer took precedence this morning, with Etienne, Ed and Mark continuing to develop the BibServer parsers… By March we want people to be able to download and run their own instance of the Server, or to provide a service whereby … Continue reading

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Tuesday 17th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 1

Today Etienne, Ed, Rufus, Mark, Peter and I met up to start the first sprint of the new year. We began by clarifying the purpose of the sprint, today’s agenda and the project overall. We stated our aims as follows: … Continue reading

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BibServer Code Sprint January 2011

BibServer team will be having a code sprint this week. When: Tuesday 17 Where: Cambridge, UK (and online) More details to follow.

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My First Hackathon

This Open Research Reports Hackathon was part of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences conference. Approaching this from a non-Computer Science perspective, I had no idea what I was in for. Having understood the word ‘hack’ only … Continue reading

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What is BibServer? What happened to Bibliographica?

Time for another clarification on what work we are doing, and what various different acronyms mean. BibServer BibServer is the software we are now working on; the aim of it is to provide a tool that enables individuals and small … Continue reading

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International Digital Curation Conference

Last week I attended the International Digital Curation Conference. It was very interesting to see many people from institutes across the world talking about how to manage and share all sorts of research data; from attempts to use institutional repository … Continue reading

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JISC Open Bibliography 2

JISC have put some extra funding in to continue work on Open Bibliography; hooray! We are continuing along the open biblio collections theme from last year, but will now be focussing on ensuring individuals and small groups can do something … Continue reading

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